They've gone from adolescence to adulthood, and now it's time for them to make their way out into the world. In year five, Dawson's (James Van Der Beek) at ICS Film school, Joey's (Katie Holmes) at Worthington College, Jen (Michelle Williams) and Jack (Kerr Smith) are off to Boston Bay College and Pacey (Joshua Jackson) is sailing the high seas. But even though they're staring new chapters of their lives, when tragedy strikes they'll discover that nothing can break the bond of friendship between them.

Season Five - Episodes:

• The Bostonians
• The lost weekend
• Capeside revisited
• The long goodbye
• Use your disillusion
• High anxiety
• Text, lies and videotape
• Hotel new Hampshire
• Four scary stories
• Something wild
• Sleeping arrangements
• Something wilder
• Guerilla film making
• Downtown crossing
• In a lonely place
• Highway to hell
• Cigarette burns
• 100 light years from home
• Separate ways (Worlds apart)
• After hours
• The Abby
• Swan song

Synopsis

Set in a small coastal town near Boston called Capeside, Dawson's Creek tells the story of four teenagers as they struggle through adolescence. This is particularly true for 15-year-olds Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek), an introspective dreamer and Joey Potter (Katie Holmes), a precocious tomboy unaware of her beauty. Best friends since childhood, they are about to enter that confusing time in life where nothing is the way it was and nothing is as it seems. Episodes: The Bostonians, The Lost Weekend, Capeside Revisited, The Long Goodbye, Four Scary Stories, Use Your Disillusion, High Anxiety, Text, Lies and Videotape, Hotel New Hampshire, Appetite For Destruction, Something Wild, Sleeping Arrangements, Something Wilder, Guerilla Filmmaking, Downtown, In a Lonely Place, Highway to Hell, Cigarette Burns, 100 Light Years From Home, Separate Ways (Worlds Apart), After Hours, The Abby, Swan Song.